title:Welcome to Andrea Cerone, new member of the group
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We are very happy to welcome Andrea Cerone to the group. Andrea has joined us from the [IMDEA Software Institute](http://software.imdea.org/about.html), Madrid, Spain, where he worked with Dr. Alexey Gotsman on Verification of Higher Order Concurrent Libraries and Foundations of Consistency Models for Distributed Databases.
Andrea is working on frameworks for specifying weak consistency models of geo-replicated databases and applications of transaction chopping for various consistency models, in particular snapshot isolation and parallel snapshot isolation. Andrea did his Ph.D at Trinity College Dublin with Prof Matthew Hennessy, and he claims to be quite unfazed by the UK weather.
You can find more about Andrea’s research on [his webpage](https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~acerone/)
Andrea is working on frameworks for specifying weak consistency models of geo-replicated databases and applications of transaction chopping for various consistency models. Andrea did his Ph.D at Trinity College Dublin with Prof Matthew Hennessy, so he claims to be quite unfazed by the UK weather.
You can find more about Andrea on [his webpage](https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~acerone/)
